Ok ive made some progress, I tried to update YR because syringe says that it cannot attach ares 0.4 to gamemd because YR is not 1.001.
So after copying the directory I tried to update it, tried several times and the update failed.
I tried to uninstall MO from the copied directory but it just uninstalled from the real one. Deleted the copy and tried to launch vanilla YR and after the loading screen with the brutes and mutator the screen stays black which is new.
I then minimized and when I look at my task bar I notice its the MO application icon (The purple colored Yuri symbol) and when I hover over it theres a small msg box saying something along the lines of "Could not start MO please reinstall".
I did so and tried to launch via the launcher, same ***FATAL*** error.
So I tried vanilla YR icon, the game starts only the menu icons are purple instead of red. I tried to start a skirmish game and when choosing a faction all of them are MISSING so I figured that w/e I did managed to get the base game to load like half the assests of the mod. Figured id post my findings here.
Going to try to uninstall all three games (RA2, YR, and MO) and reinstall later. Will post here if that bears fruit.

Hello, ive got two things, one I am also getting the ***FATAL*** String error and was curious if anyone has found a fix for it yet (Confuses me why im getting this since the original YR works fine)
And two, is the launcher supposed to rename "gamemd" to "gamemd_orginal" and "gamemo" to "gamemd"? If not then anyone know what causes this and/or how to fix it? Ty for any help that is given ^^

If I can make a suggestion, Zann is the type of person to betray someone for a nice amount of credits so maybe in a meeting between Zann and a leader of the Mandos Zann tries to double cross the mandos to sell their leader over to the Empire, but the Mandos kill him and his security force and plant evidence to make it look like the Empire (Or the Rebels) Did it. Thus giving reason why the Mandos can take full control of ZC. Just a suggestion and maybe can give you an idea.

I found out how to get this to work for Steam users (Confirmed with the Complete Collection). Instead of placing the three files into the Age of Empires 3 folder, instead you would place it in the bin folder. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin (Using Win8 as well). Hope this helps anyone now that I figured this out.

Hey AssassinCS I just thought of a idea for the Firestorm Gen. maybe you could have the building have three abilities that control the FS Walls, such as off, on, and full capacity. The setting for on will block unit movement (Maybe ground only?) and block most attacks (except for heavy attacks and powers) but still draws a lot of power from the base. Full capacity is just like you have now but maybe you can balance it to where it starts a cooldown for both active settings till it recharges. Just a idea I thought I would give to you.

If I run it with a compatibility thing or as admin it pops up saying the DLL file thing. I found out the way around that was just to run in reduced-color mode 16-bit which after doing so I was able to start the game no problem. So I went on choose to play TibSun and it brings up the main menu for it, this is where the problem came in, when I clicked on any option the game freezes and wont do anything.

I managed to get the game to run, but kept running into more problems. After looking more stuff up Win8 doesnt like too many old games and this unfortunatly is one of them. Thanks for the help everyone was worth a shot to try and get it working.